Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sweet mangosteen.jpg

File:Sweet mangosteen.jpg, featured

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bit of touch up needed to focus stacking

Yes the transition between the white pulp and the red skin was a bit blurred. Certainly due to the steep angle. I've tried to fix it. Feel free to revert if the correction is not better -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:18, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Food_and_drink#Fruits_and_raw_vegetables
•  Info created - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Amazing larger-than-life closeup! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:27, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support very nice (but see note) Charles (talk) 08:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose an ordenary still life, what's special about this image? --Wladyslaw (talk) 14:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

• Like these raspberries, these peaches, this pomegranate or these blueberries, IMO one of the finest pictures of fruits on Commons -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:16, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Concerning these raspberries and these blueberries I see a will for arrangement. This peaches are as boring as this candidate picture. I'm sorry, the image is a solide factual photography. But not outstanding in arrangement and has not an outstanding impact for me. --Wladyslaw (talk) 05:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 01:20, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:56, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Aesthetically pleasing. ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 23:22, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Neutral Good quality, nice arraignment but light could be better, it is a bit dull and makes the fruit look unattractive. --Cart (talk) 07:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support OK for me; more light would probably cause overexposed parts in the whites --Llez (talk) 14:16, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
•  weak support - Good image; I like the contrast with the background. Something doesn't quite pop, or maybe I'm just jealous because I've long wanted to try fresh mangosteen, but they're just unavailable in the US. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk |  16:14, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

•  Comment - They are sometimes available in Chinatown, though they are smaller than Malaysian mangosteens and not as good. But even a mediocre mangosteen, as long as it's ripe, is delicious. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:56, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

• I read a while back that, at least at one point, it operated as kind of a black market in NYC's Chinatown, because they're illegal to import for some agricultural/pest reasons. Or at least illegal to import from the main places that grow them. There was a NYT or New Yorker article years ago about how locals could make a special request and some grocers would have a secret stash in the back. Possibly that ban has been lifted or enough other countries grow them and can send them over since then, though... — Rhododendrites ^talk |  17:11, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

• Read w:Purple mangosteen: "Without fumigation or irradiation (in order to kill the Asian fruit fly) fresh mangosteens were illegal to import into the United States until 2007." Now they're legal, but like I said, the ones you can get here are nowhere near as good as fresh Malaysian ones. But get a couple anyway when you can. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:23, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

• @Rhododendrites: If mangosteens are difficult to find in the US, you really have to go to Asia or or any country where they're cultivated to taste them, it's going to be worth the trip :-) Honestly, they're very unique with delicious flavor, and easy to eat when they are ripe like that. Thanks for your vote and comment -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:45, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --The NMI User (talk) 06:18, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 11:15, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 22:51, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Moahim (talk) 15:08, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:17, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Food_and_drink#Fruits_and_raw_vegetables